philosophy
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The Nature-Study Idea and Related Writings
By Liberty Hyde Bailey, edited by John Linstrom, foreword by David W. Orr, with an essay by Dilafruz R. Williams In The Nature-Study Idea, Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the essence of a social movement, led by ordinary public-school teachers, that lifted education out of the classroom and placed it into firsthand contact with the natural world. The…
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The Holy Earth
By Liberty Hyde Bailey, Centennial Edition, Foreword by Wendell Berry The agrarian tradition runs as an undercurrent through the entire history of literature, carrying the age-old wisdom that the necessary access of independent farmers to their own land both requires the responsibility of good stewardship and provides the foundation for a thriving civilization. At the…

